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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Soviet Reaction to Pershings - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 04:32:36 EST
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Dec 12 01:44:00 1983

   What do I think would happen in Europe if the U.S. pulled its missles out?

I think that the French and the English would have enough to stop the Soviets
from running in, thats what. Their missles will exceed the U.S. missles in
five years (see In These Times, two weeks ago, qoute by member of World Council
of Churches).
   If Europe maintained its own European-controlled missle force and got the 
U.S. missles off their turf, they'd be a lot better off.
   The only problem is how to arm Germany. In a previous submisson to
net.politics, I qouted statements by french stratagists stating that they
should let germany get run over. Thus, Germany needs some way to defend itself.
    However, the soviets would not stand for a nuclear germany. That's the
ticklish issue.


    This does not mean that I advocate reduction of the conventional NATO
forces -- just the nuclear. Those weapons are there not so much a part of
NATO as a part of U.S. Defense policy. The conventional forces are needed
as a deterrents to aggression. The nuclear forces are aggression.